4/21 - The Wolf House
Tomorrow, Sunday, April 21st, we’ll be watching animation The Wolf House (2018) directed by Cristobal León and Joaquín Cociña. The film is inspired by Colonia Dignidad, an isolated, barbed wire surrounded German colony founded post-World War II with a dark history.
“How does one go about describing the stomach-churning terrors of Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León’s “The Wolf House”? Its visual landscape is unlike any I’ve experienced, and though everything about it is aggressively repellant, it still managed to hold me in a constant state of gobsmacked awe.” — Matt Fagerholm
This week’s movie was picked by our very own Arda:
When I think of the movies I love, it is the ones that utilize the form of film itself to create impact. The Wolf House (La casa lobo) is singular, not only in its use of stop-motion animation, but in the effectiveness with which it conveys a sense of deep disturbance through subject matter and nauseatingly beautiful motion. It is captivating, mesmerizing, and horrifying at once, using the convergence of 2D and 3D media to create an uneasiness which mirrors the disturbing reality of the real world history it is based on. Basic summary: a girl escapes a Nazi cult in Pinochet’s Chile and finds refuge in an abandoned house in the woods. My stomach turned the whole time I watched it, join me in dread and wonder.
The Wolf House will be playing at Working Room tomorrow, Sunday, April 21st. The doors will open at 7:30 and we’ll begin the movie promptly at 8:00.